Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-29
LIFE AMONG THE LOGS.
View of a sample Minnesota or Wisconsin
Lumber Camp.

| Derlng, says the 81. raul Gt0De EacD
log, from the day that it strikes the
earth ia the pineries until it is laid on
the Dakota prairies for building pur-
poses, moves in a fixed course
But it is not the log, but the log-cut.
ter ana log-driyer that form the rarest
objects Of interest in numbering. \
giant pine, sobbing and signing be-
fore its ignOminous tumble, is TO L.
looked at but not half as quickly nor so
long as the driver threading his way
over jam on guiding the drive down
to the booms. From Chippewa Falls
in Wisconsin, to Braincrd and Frozen
known as log-driyers are very numer-
Gus Living in camps Of their own
most of the year, seeking the small
cities only i'm q short season of rest,
! Injured To every exposure, bronzed by
the weather, rendered Indifferent bv
| the dangers they have incurred, they
| become peculiarly distinguished from
other men A log-driycr on a drunk
is not a teamstcr or a rah"oader drunk
| by any means.
His home when in service is under a
tent on in log huts arranged i'm the
! clearing adjacent to his field Of labor.
Each camp has its own arrangements,
! but as rule in the northwest
| permanent structures are now erected
for shelter. At Wilson the company
owns all of the houses. the grocery and
supply stores, and rent the men their
homes and sell them their needed
supplies. AT Clear Lake there is Il
much similar system, but both Of these
towns lie in the heart of great forests.
! Where long drives must be had. as
from the upper Bruinerd country to
| Minneapolis. or into Taylor's Falls or
/ down the Chippewa TO Eau Claire the
| camp at the head oil the work is rude
! ly constructed concern, meant only for
! shelter. rot comfort Your true um-
! bermeu doesn't care. He desires more
| that the calks in his boot-soles should
| be sharp than his bed soft These
calks, half an inch long and in number
| from ten to one hundred, give an
| idcuuty to the imprint OF logdriycrs
| loot that can not be mistaken. In
! wandering promiscuOusly over "head
and tajr jam, he finds his cork
/ life pvescrvers. now not at the waist,
| but on the heels The manner i'm which
! "a log ina jam can form Jock and,
! being the key to the combination, hold
in apparently ineXtIicable confusion
/ thousands Of other logs is one of the
mysteries of numbering TWENTY-FIVE
million feet Of logs in one Jam at
IayIors Falls and baby attachment
a little further up the stream of five
million feet. IL Is n sight that people
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